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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Collaborator was also one of the first, notorious BTC GPU miners << who was this again ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: at the minimum, it was a 'spare' in case of a catastrophic break in sha2 << on this we agree. meanwhile that problem seems to have navigated away
mircea_popescu: The sad irony? It wasn't old or overdone when they did it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that show's genre. They ended up being taken for granted, copied and endlessly repeated. Although they often began by saying something new, they in turn became the status quo.
mircea_popescu: There are certain shows that you can safely assume most people have seen. These shows were considered fantastic when they first aired. Now, however, these shows have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i mean, i get it, it's become scarcely distinguishable from other pumpcoinz << know teh seinfeld effect ?
mircea_popescu: they;'re not unidirectional sort of problerms like the factorisation problem is.
mircea_popescu: about as easy to go either way, towards past or future
mircea_popescu: cazalla: he's just the first iteration of garza <<< this angle i can definitely see.
mircea_popescu: and then we give nooby kids with undegrad "business" and "governance" degrees a hard time for their self-reported "experience"
mircea_popescu: just... so many ideas, it's like reading 3 centuries worth of old gray lady.
mircea_popescu: this is like... b-a logs are so substantial they dilate the perception of time.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was much much longer ago than fucken march last.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i once suggested, semi-seriously, a proofofworkfunktion based on cellular automata << i recall our discussing this, in the very logs! years ago!
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski rickles is easily one of the greatest comedians who ever lived
mircea_popescu: in other news, one doesn't hate you for the things about you that make you great, one hates you for the things about you that make his shit no longer work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this, rather than 'open'-whatever in the abstract, is why redmond declared total war on linux << quite.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: i was just wondering if a random tails user was aware of that sort of thing, or if they just downloaded it because freetalklive mentioned it << you know the answer to that q.
mircea_popescu: i hope they had a new york clause in their contract, and griesa gets to judge it
mircea_popescu: cazalla: but i think we've also refined the type of content we publish << i guess that's gonna keep getting redefined, iut's what living things do.
mircea_popescu: teward now you can assbot voice, send !up in pm then !v its string
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.teward.1:fc509d9d4b7e9bcc7fa8f0b03ff66507e9f975b04b153a5a7b45e4bdf99a6b31
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and if cca 280k this choickes to, what do we do ? what's heron sense say ?
mircea_popescu: "all internet security is a slow, half-assed, dubious reimplementation of gossipd. pity gossipd itself doesn't exist yet."
mircea_popescu: in the great internet battle pitting idiots against trolls... the trolls are winning.
mircea_popescu: cazalla anything shoul work ok really, get whatever's accessible.
mircea_popescu: "My understanding is a lot of heavily weighted entities in the ecosystem already support Gavin's proposed course."
mircea_popescu: funny how this wasn't a consideration before, because "unanimous."
mircea_popescu: lmao @forum. it has NOW discovered the importance of stuff.
mircea_popescu: "A sampling of 30% of average forum users isn't the same as 30% of the community, and certainly not the ecosystem. In reality individual users and organizations carry different weight. At the end of the day people who believe in Bitcoin (and invest their money into it) will do what they can to protect that value. The fork which has the most economic value will be the one most likely to survive with confidence of those
mircea_popescu: mayb someone should tell him fluffypony was actually looking to payu someone to do this ?
mircea_popescu: impossibru. who outside of cazalla and anyone thinking could have predicted this!
mircea_popescu: they'd roast the vanishingly small african community if those dudes didn't run so fasty.
mircea_popescu: they come read you the meat riot and sedition acts and then start shooting
mircea_popescu: mod6 it is not legal in argentina to convene more than six people outside of the presence of roasted meat.
mircea_popescu: not in the sense of, women. in the sense of, mindboggling challenges.
mircea_popescu: hey, i didn't tell you to spend all day typing ruby or w/e you do. boost.